>A friend of mine is looking for info on an old steel, tubular
>tower/mast. According to the owner, it was purchased from Texas
>Towers around 1980. The tower is retractable and consists of two
>sections. The lower section is square: about 3" or 4" square. The
>upper section is round. Both sections are made of steel. The base
>consists of a square steel section embedded in concrete. There is a
>square section, very strong, on which a dutton-lainson winch is
>installed to allow for tilting up the tower/mast. The permanent
>section (which doesn't move when you tilt down the tower) is about 5
>feet tall. The tiltable tower/mast have another winch for retracting
>the upper section. The entire tower/mast appears to be about 40 feet
>tall. Anyone have any idea who might have made this thing and what
>the original specs were?
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I have one of these towers. The bottom section is 3" square and the top
section is 2" in diameter. I bought it used and had a TA-33jr on it for 18
years. It is a little light weight for a full sized tri-band beam so I had
one guy wire to the house and a G5RV to give it a little support in 3
directions. The base was originally dropped into a sleeve in the foundation
but the base and sleeve have since rusted together.
Unfortunately I don't know the manufacturer or the specifications for it
either.
Ed
WB6YTE
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